Words: Jay Allan

Swank Rally Tunisia – Into The Desert Video

The first edition of the Swank Rally Tunisia was nothing short of amazing. A joint production from Deus Ex Machina, Adventure Riding, and enduro wizard Alessandro Botturi, the event was organised to perfection: easy enough for everyone to get stuck in and challenging enough to satisfy the lust for dirt of an expert rider. Over the course of five days, we rode 800km through the stunning desert terrain of Tunisia.

The route was a round trip through Douz, Camp Zmela, Matmata, Camp Mars, and back to Douz. From roads that stretched seemingly into eternity to the famous Sahara dunes and then onto rocky hills, it was truly a rally enthusiast's dream come true. The singular feeling of riding alone across an endless shifting sea of sand (passing the occasional shrub) will not be forgotten.

The trip went a little like this...

Back to the beginning, The Deus SlidetoberFest Surf Event

We were back at the beach for day three of the Deus SlidetoberFest, and for the first time this weekend, we were actually going to get wet. The whole event was once centred around surf, SlidetoberFest was the celebration of a year of hard work culminating i...

A giraffe, a dinosaur and a guy in a skirt go to the beach. The Slidetoberfest Dress Up Beach Drag Race

Words flounder and fail when it came time to sit and describe day two of the Deus SlidetoberFest. Let's start at the beginning, it was around 8 am when we found ourselves back in the black sand setting things up for what was, in full hindsight, the funnest ...

Bali Swank Rally is Back! Deus SlidetoberFest 2023

Can’t believe that it’s been four long years since we pulled the tarp off the Deus Slidetoberfest. Day one, and plunging headlong back into it, we held the Bali Swank Rally, sure we’d had more than the odd moment of trepidation about how it’d play out, thou...